Change of Command Ceremony | International Space Station

Change of Command Ceremony | International Space Station

Aboard the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko of Russia handed over command of the space station to NASA astronaut Suni Williams during a change of command ceremony September 22, 2024. Kononenko is completing a year-long mission on the station while Williams is in the midst of a long-duration mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. Kononenko has broken the record for the longest continuous mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), having spent more than a year in orbit, along with his crewmate cosmonaut Nikolai Chub.

Expedition 71/72 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 71 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner 

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit

For more info: www.nasa.gov/station

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Video Credit: NASA

Duration: 4 minutes, 27 seconds

Capture Date: Sept. 22, 2024

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